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Maxx

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    Research Interest: IPE and Comparative Politics
  • Application Season
    2013 Fall
  • Program
    Political Science

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  1. Hope it works out for you too. Good luck!
  2. i will be going to UNC. I am looking forward to it!
  3. I agree with the other two that PhD in political science doesn't sound like what you're looking for. If your interest is 'something international and humanitarian', what I think is best for you is to go work for a relevant NGO right after your graduation. Even though you're in neuroscience now, your cv looks like you won't have any problem getting a job in this area. After a few years of work, you can apply to one of these excellent IR or policy schools for masters: Georgetown, Harvard Kennedy, Tufts Fletcher, Columbia SIPA, Johns Hopkins SAIS, etc. Note that these are all professional schools, which means you won't gain much from the program if you don't have any working experience. When you're into your second year of the program, you would be in a good position to judge whether to go for a policy school PhD (presumably from the same school) or go back to the field in a more senior position. Professional schools and academics aren't totally mutually exclusive, but public policy/IR phd programs (IR as in that from IR schools (like studying peace negotiation at Fletcher), not IR from political science department) usually admit very few people each year, and they're often kind of looked down upon by other academic fields as not 'academic' enough, but you shouldn't care much about that if your interest leans towards the practical. my 2c.
  4. Can't blame Harvard for this one. I emailed the department to make an inquiry and the graduate coordinator there replied me quickly (with a generic letter). The formal rejection / acceptances, however, are handled by the graduate school. How they'll do it, I don't know.
  5. You mean Harvard? No I don't. The email I got from the department is a standard email for the rejects.
  6. With Harvard's rejection (I emailed them), that's it for me this year -- no acceptance. This is already my second year trying, and there won't be a third one. It isn't totally hopeless though since I am on UNC's IR wait-list. Let's see. In the meantime, good luck to you all!
  7. Graduate courses certainly helps, but probably not master-level ones (including SAIS', even though it's a very good school). A lot of your competitors next year would either have completed or be completing a master degree, so the fact that you have one course under your belt won't help much. What would definitely help though is for you to take a PhD seminar in the first semester of your senior year (presumably in your own school), do very well in it, and ask the prof to write you a recommendation which says you have great potential in research. These seminars aren't typically offered in the summer as far as I know. For summer, I agree with 3221 that RA would probably be a good move.
  8. Congrats to the Princeton admit! The wait is long enough.
  9. Got my Northwestern rejection finally. NW is my top choice; still waiting for my first acceptance. Oh well...
  10. wow, quite a refresher amidst an otherwise very quiet day!
  11. My Northwestern account still says the same message as well. Chances are it just takes them days to change the status of all accounts. Last year the spread was over six days. BTW, is the gradstatus.northwestern.edu the place to go to? I ask this because someone posted something about knowing the decision from applyyourself and I wonder if these are the same thing.
  12. Thanks. I was just wondering. Turns out we're all on the same boat.
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